Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Avoid of Rheumatic Heart Disease

Heart is the human engine, which have function to circulate blood to all the body tissue and distribute nutrient to all body part needed. If the heart have problem all part of the body can have malfunction because of food supply is disturbed. One of the problems on heart is Rheumatic Heart Disease. Formerly heart disease attach to childhood and adolescence. Rheumatic heart disease can damage to the entire heart system like its membranes.

Rheumatic heart disease happens after have rheumatic fever for along time and affected to the heart function. Rheumatic fever itself result from untreated strep throat. The effect of chronic rheumatic heart fever can damage the heart valves, which have function to open and closed the circulation to the heart. If the valve function have permanent damage, this condition is called as rheumatic heart disease.

The symptons of rheumatic heart disease like breathlessness, fatigue, palpitations, chest pain, and fainting attacks. Rheumatic heart can happen to children which begin from untreated rheumatic fever. Medication of rheumatic heart disease just avoid to some overexertion, surgery may be needed to replace the damage heart valve.

To prevent children of having rheumatic heart disease is by prevention from having rheumatic fever. If there is some indication of having rheumatic fever to children, immediately make some medication seriously to the rheumatic fever. Some children can have this disease from they are born, so to treat this disease may can by some medication to repair by themselves if possible, if not possible it should be wait until a child grown up then do a surgery to treat further.